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Kelly McGonigal: 如何讓壓力成為你的朋友 | Video on TED.com

Kelly McGonigal: Yeah, and one thing we know for certain is that chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort. And so I would say that's really the best way to make decisions, is go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

科学松鼠会 » 高效能人士也可以有拖延的习惯

儘管我們喜歡避重就輕，但無所事事的狀態更讓人難受。芝加哥大學的Christopher Hsee等人發現，人們寧可做一些毫無意義的事情，也不願傻呆著。電梯間的廣告、花生瓜子之類的零食、文玩核桃、麻將……這些很多時候都是為瞭解決無聊而存在的幾乎沒什麼意義的事物。
當我們的 to do list 不夠長時，就很難找到匹配現在狀態的任務，而當事件足夠多時就會有更多的選擇——為了拖延最不想做的那件事，為了減少一點內疚，還是把這件比較不太想做的事做了吧，相比較起來它似乎也沒有那麼面目可憎了。

Engineers in America: Too Young, Too Old | EE Times

When our company changed focus and looked for an embedded development engineer, we did get a better pick from the experience pool, partly because it seemed like a growing field, with less maturity. Still, the experience level was strongly biased towards the two ends -- either no experience or over 20 years of experience.